空の境界 上 Quotes

“We don't choose the path we take because of the sins we carry. But we carry our sins on the path we choose.”
― Kinoko Nasu, 空の境界 上

“There are two ways to escape: escape without a purpose and escape with a purpose. I call the former 'floating', and the latter 'flight'.”
― Kinoko Nasu, 空の境界 上

“But see, there isn't a person in the world that doesn't know the weight of a sin. Maybe some people to whom the weight of sin is light instead of overbearing, but the weight is felt all the same, a small sin in the scope of their similarly small compassion, but enough to plant the doubt in him. And soon enough, that doubt grows into something they regret.”
― Kinoko Nasu, 空の境界 上

“Two years of oblivion have reduced me, if not to emptiness, than to something that sits closely beside it. It laid waste all that I was inside, and severed what connection existed between my memory and personality through two years of “living” like a shell, on the boundary of emptiness. And though there was precious little drama here compared to actual societal rejection, it drives me to worry all the same. All my memories are just reflections on the water, and I don’t know whether I’m the reflection or the real thing.”
― Kinoko Nasu, 空の境界 上

“When I was little, I was afraid of monsters. I mistook the silhouettes flitting to and fro in the midst of the bamboo trees for ghost and other horrors. But now, I'm scared of other people, people who you imagine will just jump out form behind the brush to attack you. What age was I when I started to replace the ghosts with people?”
― Kinoko Nasu, 空の境界 上

“humans are creatures who give meaning to meaningless actions, and derive purpose from it.”
― Kinoko Nasu, 空の境界 上

“Your body produces some chemicals that stimulate some nerves that send a signal to your brain saying 'Oh my God, I am going to die,' and that's how you get pain.”
― Kinoko Nasu, 空の境界 上

“She had no reason to kill herself,"I say finally. "She just wasn't able to fly.”
― Kinoko Nasu, 空の境界 上

“In this way, reason represented by your knowledge, and experience represented by instinct -will start to conflict. Eventually, one will lose, and confusion sets in.”
― Kinoko Nasu, 空の境界 上

“Belief bends reality.”
― Kinoko Nasu, 空の境界 上

“That’s what having no sensation is like: to be without a body, as if you’re ethereal, floating like a ghost. To not feel alive. "Seeing is believing” is doubly applicable to someone like her.”
― Kinoko Nasu, 空の境界 上

“Because I think sins are things people individually carry, a burden that we ourselves make for our own fair share. Our sins become heavier the better our wisdom and common sense, and the greater our happiness.”
― Kinoko Nasu, 空の境界 上

“Different minds perceive different things, but all are imprisoned, asleep in a paradigm of material reality. Awakened minds bearing a more malleable paradigm, such as those of mages, can bend its rules, but never truly break them. To cross that boundary is to become something more and less human. A god, but absent the restraint.”
― Kinoko Nasu, 空の境界 上

“Because there's nothing for me to tell. You didn't do anything, right?”
― Kinoko Nasu, 空の境界 上